About the Authors

Jean R. Strait is the Executive Director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Culture and Education (FACE) in St. Paul, Minnesota (www.faceeducation.org). Jean directs professional development, community problem solving and partners with K–12 schools and colleges and universities on issues of diversity and student development. In addition, Jean teaches in St. Paul Public Schools working with Special Education at E-Stem Middle School. She was a faculty member at Hamline University for 15 years and has over thirty years of experience training teachers using service-learning. Jean has been awarded The International Journal of Service-Learning In Teacher Education Lifetime Achievement Award, the Hamline University Ruth Grimes Professor Lifetime Achievement Award, The International Conference of Service-Learning in Teacher Education Rahima Wade Outstanding Individual Educator, The Hedgman Center for Social Justice and Diversity-Outstanding Faculty Award, The President’s Award Minnesota Campus Compact, and was a three-time finalist for the Thomas Ehrlich Award for Service-Learning, Campus Compact. As a scholar Jean has contributed many publications and presentations to the field, most notably for eService-learning. She is the coeditor of the International Journal of Service-Learning in Teacher Education with Kathy Tice and is currently working on a text with coauthor Kathryn Nordyke on taking eService-learning to the next level to address social problems in communities. Jean holds a BS in elementary education from the University of Pittsburgh, an MS in elementary education and literacy from Minnesota State University, Moorhead and two PhDs in Educational Psychology and Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Minnesota.